A renovation in the early 1900s gave the house its predominant Greek Revival architectural style. It's high above River Road, well above any flooding. / Photos Mark Vergari/The Journal News

The breakfast area features French doors that open to the patio and back yard. / Photos by Mark Vergari/The Journal news

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After living in Grand View for a decade (and in Irvington for many years before that), Liz Barhydt has a fine feel for who’s good and who’s not when it comes to home renovation and decor. Here are some of her local favorites. Aubrey Flowers — 510 Piermont Ave., Piermont 845-359-1411, www.aubreyflowers.com. “Lynne Aubrey’s store has a wonderful collection of items for the home and garden in addition to beautiful fresh flowers,” Barhydt says. The Outside In — 249 Ferdon Ave., Piermont 845-398-0706, www.outsideinpiermont.webs.com. “This unique and imaginative gallery highlights the work of local artisans.” she says. “The owners Bill and Joe encourage you to relax and take your time as you wander through this wonderfully creative space.” Gene Reed — 74 S. Broadway, Nyack 845-358-3750. “She has a fun and eclectic store filled with a wide variety of items, including antiques, home decor and clothing.” Barhydt says. “Our kitchen renovation started with the purchase of an antique cabinet from Gene Reed.” Michael Christopher Antiques — 23 Main St., Tarrytown, 914-366-4665. Owners Chris Brazil and Michael Farley specialize in restored lighting and chandeliers, and Barhydt has great praise for the way they can modify the fixtures to work in your space. “They are a whiz with lighting.” Belkind Bigi — 21 Main St., Tarrytown 914-524-9626, www.belkindbigi.1stdibs.com“Stacy Belkind and Marina Bigi’s shop features mid-century modern furniture, lighting, ceramics, glass and artwork,” says Barhydt. “They have extensive knowledge of mid-century modern and will work with you to find just the right piece for your home.” Grab Finishing Inc. — Dave Grab, 5 Fanley Ave., New City, 914-523-3819, www.grabfinishing.com. Grab did lots of wood finishing in the house including the washed/pickled treatment for the kitchen floor and an ebony piano finish for the doors of the master bath. “Dave exceeded every far-flung finish challenge that we threw his way,” she says. Erika Szente Window Fashion LLC — 46 Birch Tree Road, Tappan, 845-589-9270, www.erikaszente.com. Szente created window seat cushions, draperies and slipcovers throughout the house. Baryhdt likes her attention to detail and and her knack for figuring the mechanics for window treatments in tricky locations.

Liz Barhydt on the wrap-around porch of her five-bedroom home at 245 River Road in Grand View. It's on the market for $2,499,000. / File photo/The Journal News

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Right from the start, Liz Barhydt and her husband, Bill Hart, fell in love with the light and the river views that greeted them from the wide and welcoming porch that wraps around their historic Greek Revival in Grand View. Inside the house, the views of the Hudson are just as good, even better from the river-facing rooms on the second and third floors. And many of the rooms have multiple sets of French doors and floor-to-ceiling windows that you can throw open to river breezes.

“Almost every room in the house has a view,” Barhydt says. “You should see the full moon coming up over the river.”

And unlike parts of River Road in Piermont, their house — called Periwinkle because of the color it’s been painted in recent years — sits high above the street and the river. They were completely untouched by Superstorm Sandy.

A decade after they bought it, Barhydt and Hart still adore the 5,000-square-foot house, but they’ve decided to put it up for sale and relocate to Austin, Texas. It’s listed with David Sanders of Sanders Properties in Nyack for $2,499,000.

“There’s been a nice steady flow of interest,” says Barhydt, adding that Austin also has a “healthy rowing community.” (Most days in summer you’ll find her out on the river in a sculling boat with a few friends from the Piermont Rowing Club.)

“There’s so much to like about the house,” Sanders says. “I love the style of it, the graciousness of it and I love that it has a wrap-around front porch. It’s a superb place to entertain.”

“It’s the kind of house that everybody, everybody knows about and just loves,” he adds.

Many people in Rockland have been through the house because it’s been part of two house tours in recent years, the ones organized by the Historical Society of Rockland County and the Blue Rock School in West Nyack. Barhydt is a former vice president of the Historical Society.

Officially, the five-bedroom house dates to the 1790s — “there’s maybe a beam in the basement that dates to the 1700s,” Barhydt says with typical candor — and it’s been through many additions, subtractions and renovations over the centuries.

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Originally, it was a three-room cottage, built by Garret Onderdonk in 1794. The south side of the house was added 30 years later, with two generous bays on the first floor and three on the second. Another building was moved and attached to the back of the house in the mid-19th century, almost doubling its overall size. On the second floor, you can still see the slight differences in level between the front and back parts of the house.

In the early 1900s, a major remodeling gave Periwinkle its predominant Greek Revival style, with sets of double Doric columns that run across the full-width front porch, second-floor pilasters and dentil molding on the porch and roof cornice.

Because of the various add-ons over the years, the perfect symmetry associated with Greek Revival is a little out of whack here. That’s OK — it just adds to the charm and keeps the rambling old house from being cold or stuffy. And Barhydt and Hart have exquisite taste and an easygoing, mix-it-all-up decorating style that keeps everything informal and inviting. All of the warm colors and lightweight fabrics help, too.

From top to bottom, the house features attractive architectural features, including high ceilings, wood floors, archways, built-in cabinets, unusually tall windows, antique mantels, classic moldings and bay windows.

One of the main selling points when they bought a decade ago was that the seller had just done a major renovation, pulling the house into the 21st century. She rehabbed the five fireplaces, updated all the mechanicals, winterized two porches (now a dreamy second-floor bath and a breakfast room off the kitchen) and reconfigured space to create a master suite. She also converted the third-floor attic into two rooms with cozy dormers (more great views of the river!). One is now a guest room and the other is Hart’s man cave getaway.

With most of the heavy lifting already done, Barhydt and Hart decided to focus on updating the kitchen and master bath.

In the kitchen, the previous owner had left them her huge and high-end Aga stove from Britain — six ovens, six burners and a warming top. They moved it to the center of the room and sort of built a new kitchen around it. “We also added a more user-friendly American version to one side of it,” Barhydt explains.

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To open up the room and bring in more light, they added large windows that look out to the very private back yard and pulled down the upper cabinets, replacing them with a glass-front floor-to-ceiling hutch that they found in Gene Reed’s shop in Nyack. The new kitchen is now their favorite spot in winter.

Sanders has high praise for their work. “The kitchen that Liz and Bill created is just right for the style of the house,” he says. “Very understated, such good taste, not at all McMansiony.”

The swank new master bath boasts a soaking tub, glass-walled shower with dual heads, his-and-hers sinks with an onyx surround and Waterworks fixtures, and a large mirror with picture-frame edging. The floor has radiant heat (adored by their cats) and black and white marble in a basket-weave pattern.

Barhydt and Hart also did lots of exterior work, adding a new driveway and drainage system, along with bluestone terraces to tame the hilly back yard.

“The bones were there, and we brought in trees and shrubs and redid the hedges and stone work,” Barhydt says.

They also completely updated the swimming pool and hot tub and reconfigured the four-car garage behind the house, pulling off ugly vinyl siding and adding handsome mahogany doors and heating and air conditioning.

Sanders is confident that just the right buyer will come along and fall in love with the house all over again.

“It’s just a wonderful house,” he says. “It has everything that you’d hope to find in a river hamlet around here.”